Figurative language involves using “figures of speech,” which express ideas in ways that are not meant to be taken literally.

Not an official fan site of poet Robert Frost
Not an official fan site of poet Robert Frost
Figurative language involves using “figures of speech,” which express ideas in ways that are not meant to be taken literally.
Frost’s quote, “I’d sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down,” applies to both form and meter.